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Belafonte vehemently denied the allegations, saying “someone’s set me up to look like a bad guy”.

Mel also claimed Stephen pushed her to the floor and choked her on the night of her Dancing With The Stars finale in November 2007, and that he split her lip by punching her while she was filming a segment with Usher for The X Factor in 2012.

The TV judge also references her husband's alleged abuse continued in the bedroom, with the 2 Become 1 singer claiming he "demanded" that she participate in threesomes with "random women".

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She states that she was pressured into these encounters after Stephen revealed he'd made recordings of their "sex life" and other "private moments", which he used as leverage to gain her consen.

Addressing her husband's alleged demands for multiple group sex sessions, she claims: "Respondent often times demanded that I participate in sexual intercourse with him and random women that he brought back to our hotel rooms."

Adding another shocking layer to the allegations Mel said that he would "threaten" her with the release of their sex tapes to secure her participation in the threesomes - some of which she asserts he filmed "surreptitiously".

A Los Angeles court decreed Belafonte, 41, to immediately leave the marital home in the city and have no contact with the star or her children.